Cheat vs Convince - What's the difference?
cheat | convince |
To violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation.
To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner.
To manage to avoid something even though it seemed unlikely.
To deceive; to fool; to trick.
* Shakespeare
To beguile.
* Washington Irving
Someone who cheats (informal: cheater).
An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.
* Dryden
The weed cheatgrass.
A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a computer game, often by entering a cheat code.
To make someone believe, or feel sure about something, especially by using logic, argument or evidence.
* Atterbury
To persuade.
(obsolete) To overcome, conquer, vanquish.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To confute; to prove wrong.
* Francis Bacon
(obsolete) To prove guilty; to convict.
* Bible, John viii. 46
* Dryden
As verbs the difference between cheat and convince
is that cheat is to violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation while convince is to make someone believe, or feel sure about something, especially by using logic, argument or evidence.As a noun cheat
is someone who cheats (informal: cheater).cheat
English
Verb
(en verb)- My brother flunked biology because he cheated on his mid-term.
- My husband cheated on me with his secretary.
- He cheated death when his car collided with a moving train.
- I feel as if I've cheated fate.
- My ex-wife cheated me out of $40,000.
- He cheated his way into office.
- I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me of this island.
- (Sir Walter Scott)
- to cheat winter of its dreariness
Synonyms
* belirt * blench * break the rules * lirtNoun
(en noun)- When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat .
Synonyms
* (card game ) bullshit, BS, I doubt itDerived terms
* cheat code * cheater * cheating * cheat on * cheat the hangman * windcheaterSee also
*Anagrams
* * *convince
English
Verb
(convinc)- Such convincing proofs and assurances of it as might enable them to convince others.
- His two chamberlains / Will I with wine and wassail so convince / That memory, the warder of the brain, / Shall be a fume.
- God never wrought miracle to convince' atheism, because his ordinary works ' convince it.
- Which of you convinceth me of sin?
- Seek not to convince me of a crime / Which I can ne'er repent, nor you can pardon.